Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1974. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
one of 65 National Register listings in Lucas County · listed in 1974 · category: District · one of 2 National Historic Landmarks in Lucas County.
National Register reference number.74001558- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
1 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ludwig, Isaac R., Historical Mill between
2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 476 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ludwig, Isaac R., Historical Mill between 1860 and
1973: 426 Animalia, 45 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Selby, Angle, E. (Eric), Auten and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
3,333 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
another is in place but inoperable, and the third appears to be is ample parking, and the entire property is well-suited for use most recent have been demolished, and others may be retained as There remains. most of the equipment was removed from the upper floors. Miami and Erie Canal.Though its wooden gates are long gone, the doors and double-hung sash, six lights over six.The small windows A good portion of the canal lock's stonework is in good condition. were built after the fire.Various one-story additions of recent Some of the foundation has been covered over with cement.It was A gravel road leads to the mill from the nearby state route. the mill has had water rights in perpetuity from the State of Ohio.
date had been made on the north side and on the ends;some of the Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - 16th Century - Urban Planning - Prehistoric STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
Peter Manor, first white settler in what is now Providence Township, and founder of Providence, came to the area in 1808. of town, located to the west of the mill site. With the building of the Miami and Erie Canal, the town flourished. the present structure, and probably the present turbines, date His son, Cleo, returned to the mill at his father's death in 1931 Commerce Military losophy Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Transportation Conservation Aboriginal Engineering Science Communications Theater Education Literature Industry Pre-Columbian Agriculture Political itarian Sculpture Heising as a miller. Religion/Phi- Isaac Ludwig's grandson.He gave it to the Toledo Metropolitan Social/Human- dates from this period too. Landscape Music See continuation sheet.
He never saw its completion.After Manor's death in l847 the Manor operated a small grist mill near his sawmill.Just before the Maumee River by the chief.He settled on part of that land In l9l9 Heising took over the mill with several other investors. to A.Pilliod, who in turn hired a German-speaking youth named partially completed mill was purchased by Isaac R.Ludwig. and has operated the mill and a farm supply store ever since.The Miami and Erie, and in l849 completed Manor's unfinished mill at He was adopted by Chief Tondogamie of the Ottawa Indians and structure is part of the foundation and some of the framing.
subsequently was given 643 acres of land on the north side of fire about 1930 destroyed the upper part of the second story and About 1895 the mill went through a major rebuilding.Most of In 197l the mill was purchased from Heising by Cleo R.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001558, 25 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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